Louisa Clark

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Louisa Clark’s paintings are capaciously evocative, activated by ambiguity. ‘Worrying Space’ captures the inherent activity of an object, though it may seem static to the human eye. The petite scale of this work, mounted on board, contributes to its experience of contained space. The artist's process is deeply involved with sculpture, investigating the vulnerability of structural elements around us to create her work. In it, the outlines waver, but the forms are tenacious.  

Looking is an experiment the artist invites us to share in. As in ‘Balcony Heat’, typically we view the paintings from above: we are examining what is normally beneath our notice. In ‘Sunbathe’ the naturalistic aspect of the scene – an object lying in a strip of sunlight – is made, by the high contrast, more spectacular The object is spotlighted and a seemingly unimportant piece of detritus is centred as the focus. ‘Daylight Fragments’ has the atmosphere of a scrapyard yet the composition is so considered and the controlled use of tone gives the paintings unity.

As with Paul Nash’s painting ‘Equivalent for the Megaliths’ hanging in Tate Britain, Clark’s paintings combine an abstract geometric realm and a more literally recognisable depiction in order to interrogate the perception of physical reality. The title of ‘Sunbathe’ also imbues the ‘object’ with a subjectivity of sorts – like a totem, it emanates meaning. With a graceful use of colour and line, these paintings capture how space feels as well as questioning how we think about it; they're sensuous works, albeit in an unusual way.